John Davidson

Message:

I've saved some users ids in the database like this:

column user_ids: [2,1]

When I show column's value is "[2,1]"

How can I convert this to an array!

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My Answer:
You can use the `json_decode` function in Laravel to convert the string representation of an array into an actual array. Here's an example of how you can do this:

php
$userIds = '[2,1]';
$userIdsArray = json_decode($userIds);

dd($userIdsArray);


This will output:


array:2 [
0 => 2
1 => 1
]


Now you have the user ids as an actual array that you can work with in your Laravel application.